the shiny failure thread

[RTA fan]

if you've had a bad bit of luck during a playthrough of pokemon with shinies, post it here.
i encountered a shiny zigzagoon earlier. the problem: it was before i was given any poke balls!!!!!!!! i thought resetting might help... it didn't.

 

[Bland Mango]

SUre there must be a hidden mechanic where facing a shiny doubles the chance of critical hits, I've crit hit 2

 

[Apawn:p]

First shiny, I had no pokeball and it selfdectruted (darn voltzorb, but I found another and got it.)

 

[RTA fan]

my other two encounters with shinies were a success though. i used ultra balls as soon as the battles started

 

[Gomez16]

wild pokemon should not have suicide moves. So many dead shinys

 

[azngamer87]

Found a shiny Quilladin in the friend safari.. Used false swipe on it and threw a luxury ball. But it failed... he used a moved with recoil and killed itself... I cried!

 

[King Fissamé]

agreed

 

[BigBadButterfree]

I was playing ruby and in victory road I came across a shiny Hariyama. It used whirlwind immediately.

The next time I played through ruby, I was in victory road again. All I could think about was that Hariyama. Surely, it was just a one-time thing. Wrong. I encountered another shiny Hariyama. I quickly gained hope. I was able to whittle its health down enough, but the first ultra ball failed. Another hit, health in the red. Another failed ultra ball. THEN it decided to use whirlwind :/

 

[Karpi]

I believe it was my brother who found a shiny Graveler in one of the 2nd gen games, which of course used Selfdestruct.
He also, when he was a lot younger, told me that he found a shiny Sableye, but didn't understand that it was rare so he ran from it.

 

[G50]

In a cave that I forgot the name of in GSC years ago, I found a shiny Zubat, unfortunately I had no Poke Balls and couldn't catch it -.-

 

[Nowhere Girl]

I think my only failure with shinies is the ability to find one. As in, I can't. Over probably 1500+ hours of playing every game, I've only ever found one shiny naturally; a Cubone in SoulSilver Rock Tunnel.

I did manage to chain fish enough to get two shiny Claunchers in X, though, which is nice but kind of feels like cheating.

 

[Shiny Magnezone]

I only had two Shiny failures so far thoughout my years of playing Pokémon. They are:

Shiny Graveler
Game: Pokémon Crystal
Reason: It used Selfdestruct on me

Shiny Volbeat
Game: Pokémon Sapphire
Reason: Ran out of Poké Balls, so I had no choice but to knock it out.

 

[Lunacy]

I've found two shiny Frogadier inside the Friend Safari, both terribly useless for competitive.

Going back to the days of GSC, my very first shiny encounter was a shiny Spinarak on the route north of Cherrygrove. Not knowing about the shiny mechanic at the time, I immediately turned off my game and restarted the file, thinking my save had become corrupted.

 

[HeroOfDarkness]

I am happy to say I have not had a "shiny failure." I was close when a Shiny Machoke decided to show itself in my Pokemon Pearl. Thank goodness my friend was able to catch him.

 

[G50]

With all of the shinies I've encountered in X/Y, surprisingly I've only had one fail. A shiny Mankey that I used too strong of a Pokemon against, and knocked it out with Shadow Ball.

 

[Glitchipedia]

Hatched a shiny Magby from the Odd Egg in Crystal. The bad luck? The cartridge died before I made it past Ecruteak.

Caught a shiny Silcoon and a shiny Spinda in Ruby. Ended up trading both of them away, don't remember what for. I didn't put a lot of value on shinies back then; actually, I found them rather annoying.

 

[Me Gusta]

Never encountered anything but the red gyarados. even the odd egg failed me. When I get X,(My parents didn't want to buy a whole new system because all I have is a DS lite and GBA SP for handhelds)I better get a shiny Fennekin or Honedge for all the years I searched.

 

[Phoenixon]

My little sister once found a Shiny Ponyta in my Platinum, and at the time, she didn't know what a "Shiny" was, and she killled it.
Later, she told me that she found a "blue Ponyta", and once I found out what she did, I almost killed her.

 

[Silverwynde]

I was chaining for a Beldum on Pearl years ago and the chain broke. I hit reset but not before I saw what had broken said chain: a shiny Vibrava. :banghead:

 

[Crystal Onix]

I once was so luled into running from non-shinies in diamond, I accidentally ran from a shiny koffing.